The new commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Mark Rowley, is coming under pressure to do more to combat low-level crimes like theft from cars.
The Telegraph published analysis of the latest Home Office data which suggested the Metropolitan Police solved just 271 out of 55,000 thefts from vehicles in London in 2021.
That rate—0.5 percent—was lower than all but three of the 43 police forces in England and Wales.
Rick Muir, head of the Police Foundation think tank, told The Telegraph it amounted to “effective decriminalisation” of theft from cars by the Met and he added: “Victims of these kinds of these crimes would not expect to get the same level of priority as more serious offences. But, at the same time, there are certain things the public expect of police, one of which is that they will at least investigate these bread-and-butter crimes.”…